The book Arran; - Cook Clan

38 THE BOOK OF ARRAN
middle of the fifteenth century, we have considerable detail
as to the dealings of the royal house with respect to Arran
the island becomes part of the royal domain and has its
place in the royal accounts. Portions of it are disposed
of to other families, some of whom are relatives, and these
will be considered in their place. Meanwhile, there may be
presented a table of the royal holdings in the island with the
rentals of these. These rentals vary but little over the halfcentury
or so of which we have record, not at all in money
and only a trifle in produce. Competitive rents are as yet
unknown. Grassums, at the renewal of the annual ' setting '
at Martinmas, are paid in fixed quantities of barley and in
the proportion of one mart or head of cattle to every mark
(13s. 4d.) of money rent. In Bruce's time we hear of payments
in swine from the island, but these do not figure in
the official rent-rolls of the later period. Barley and cattle,
as the chief produce, exhaust the payment in produce ; the
cattle are landed at Arnele (Portincross) or Toward,^ and
thence drovers bring them, at the royal expense, to Stirling.
TABLE OF THE KING'S FARMS IN ARRAN:
COMPILED FROM EXCHEQUER RoLLS
Name on Rolls
: